This research explores the effects of culture on technological diffusion and economic development. It shows that culture's direct effects on development and barrier effects to technological diffusion are, in general, observationally equivalent. In particular, using a large set of measures of...

Is there a “middle-income trap”? Theory suggests that the determinants of growth at low and high income levels may be different. If countries struggle to transition from growth strategies that are effective at low income levels to growth strategies that are effective at high income levels,...

This paper presents a simple model to measure the relative economic growth of economic systems. The model considers S-Shaped patterns of economic growth that, represented with a linear model, measure how an economic system grows in comparison with another one. In particular, this model...

This note presents a simple model to measure the relative economic growth of economic systems. The model considers S-Shaped pattern of economic growth which represented with a linear model provides information on how an economic system growth in comparison with another one. In particular, this...

The crisis in Turkish economy in the later 1970's brought along the enforcement of the stability and structural adjustment policies as of 1980 and more liberal regime policies. These events led to the serious increase of industrialization in Turkey after 1980. The impact of industry on the...

We examine the short and long run average causal impact of catastrophic natural disasters on economic growth by combining information from comparative case studies. We assess the counterfactual of the cases studied by constructing synthetic control groups taking advantage of the fact that the...

The East African Community (EAC) has been among the fastest growing regions in sub-Saharan Africa in the past decade or so. Nonetheless, the recent growth path will not be enough to achieve middle-income status and substantial poverty reduction by the end of the decade-the ambition of most...

This article empirically examines the impact of external debt on economic growth in emerging economies from 1990 to 2022, considering the effects of globalization. Using a deductive methodology that combines a comprehensive literature review with econometric analysis, particularly a...

This study provides an overview of tax structures in LAC before the COVID-19 pandemic, compares it to OECD countries, and provides recommendations for growth-friendly and inclusive tax policy reforms. LAC countries collect significantly lower tax revenue relative to OECD countries and have tax...

Endogenous growth models based on micro-foundations predict that total factor productivity (TFP) growth is positively associated with effective research effort. We use macroeconomic-pooled time series-cross sectional data for the G7 countries from 2000 to 2017 to provide a robust estimate of...